Help! Have a question about re-using a Colorado Tape backup in a more modern computer.

[Elyse Murray]

I have a Colorado Tape Backup System, Jumbo 700, that is several years old but runs fine in an old 486. I want to move it to a newer computer with Windows 98, if that will work.

My question is, is Windows 3.1 software upward compatible to Windows 98? I cannot get an answer from HP, have no current backup capabilities, and do not have the means to purchase any other type of data backup.

If you have a knowledgable, accurate answer to this question I would really appreciate it if you would reply.

Thank you very much.

[CA911939]

Morning Elyse. My knowledgable, accurate answer is:

Win 3.1 does not support long filenames, so if you backup win 98 files with win 3.1 S/W, you would lose long filenames. Workaround: zip your long filenamed files, give the zip a DOS-compliant name, then backup the zip (uncompressed). You will be able to recover long filenames when you restore and unzip. Watch file dates 'cause win 3.1 S/W is not Y2K compliant.

You might want to go web search for CBW95.exe. It is a Colorado Memory Systems (now HP) backup program. It supports long filenames and I use it on my Jumbo and Trakker 250 drives.

Good luck
Don

[Lewis Finch]

Elyse,

You can also download Colorado Backup II software ver 8.0 form this link and it should work fine in Win 98,
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?pnameOID=18513&locale=en_US&taskId=135&prodTypeId=12169&prodSeriesId=63935&submit.y=8&submit.x=5&cc=us&swEnvOID=20